THE BEER THREAD(?)----->!!!

[phantasmagorovich]

Rubes.

Don't get me wrong I like good beer and there are so many great micro and mini brews (I guess they call them craft brews these days) why would anybody drink imports. I won't lie,...for a while I was all about Newcastle and Guiness.

To all you Europeans,...I apologize for the atrocity that is the fermented rice water we Americans call beer and shove out into the world.

Hi-Life 4 life!

[snipelfritz]

Motherfucking Champagne of beers!

I feel like you need to divide beers into good beer and cheap beer. High Life is cheap beer and it's not bad for a cheap beer. I'd still prefer PBR or Schlitz or Old Style any day.

[bubstance]

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[Tigerbass]

My friend's beer is officially my new favorite. Homebrewed in Michigan.

Holy !@#$%^&*&^%$#@!!~!! Time for a road trip! I make my own too...fuzz and homemade beers ftw!!!

[warwick.hoy]

Oh it's not just americans. going to the liquor store with people here and being like hmm what do we want? rapidly turns into whoa lets get imported beer like Budweiser ! $18 6 pack fail I tried to explain about how i had used a 40oz of budweiser after good beer / when i couldn't taste the difference but it seemed lost on my ex drummer.

Budweiser is for Nascar fans and $18 a 6er is a HUGE ripoff. I don't really know how much it is here cause I never buy it,...but whatever the price it's a ripoff. If somebody hands me a Bud,....I won't turn my nose up at it,...but I won't knowingly buy Budweiser/Bud Light.

[Tigerbass]

Oh it's not just americans. going to the liquor store with people here and being like hmm what do we want? rapidly turns into whoa lets get imported beer like Budweiser ! $18 6 pack fail I tried to explain about how i had used a 40oz of budweiser after good beer / when i couldn't taste the difference but it seemed lost on my ex drummer.

Budweiser is for Nascar fans and $18 a 6er is a HUGE ripoff. I don't really know how much it is here cause I never buy it,...but whatever the price it's a ripoff. If somebody hands me a Bud,....I won't turn my nose up at it,...but I won't knowingly buy Budweiser/Bud Light.

Amen brother!

[magiclawnchair]

finishing my last two 2XIPAs then its on to hop czar!!!

[fiddelerselbow]

This stuff is sweet and tasty and fudge ^^ you up, proper.

and I love the artwork..

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljgXQ0mE8_M[/youtube] review

I've always wanted to try that, a few pubs in my city stock it. The name gives me the wobbles though.

[Tigerbass]

I had the Delirium Tremens a few weeks ago. It is good but the Belgian yeast is VERY strong. Almost has that moldy feet smell to it.

[hasblueshoes]

Tomorrow I'm gonna have Flying Dog/Brewers Art - Table for Two

What did you think? I only got to try a little sample of it but I liked it a lot.

[snipelfritz]

Pink Elephants. Classy.

hasblueshoes, I totally read your name as "has blues hoes" at first. lol

[SPACERITUAL]

hasblueshoes, I totally read your name as "has blues hoes" at first. lol

[levitates]

coast hopart ipa
coast blackbeard stout
dogfish head 90 minute ipa
racer 5 ipa
stone double bastard

[jfrey]

I want to see if anyone thinks the same as me about this.


I think that America has the best beer in the world. Now, to explain:

The mainstream beer we have is about the worst mainstream beer in the world, but the craft beer we have is the best in the world. Out of the 400-500 different types of beer I have had (roughly 50% American, 40% European, and then the other 10% split up from different places around the world) my favourites have been almost all American.

(As to why I'm not judging by the mainstream beers: If you're talking about a countries athletes you don't go looking at their Special Olympics)


I've considered the idea that this may be because of my personal preferences in beer, so for reference:

My favourite types of beer are Imperial Stouts and Imperial IPAs. The darker, stronger, and more bitter, the better.

Aside from that I like most kinds of beers, although I tend to like beers less that are lighter, weaker, and less bitter.

The only kind of beer I dislike completely are fruit flavoured.

[bigchiefbc]

I want to see if anyone thinks the same as me about this.


I think that America has the best beer in the world. Now, to explain:

The mainstream beer we have is about the worst mainstream beer in the world, but the craft beer we have is the best in the world. Out of the 400-500 different types of beer I have had (roughly 50% American, 40% European, and then the other 10% split up from different places around the world) my favourites have been almost all American.

(As to why I'm not judging by the mainstream beers: If you're talking about a countries athletes you don't go looking at their Special Olympics)


I've considered the idea that this may be because of my personal preferences in beer, so for reference:

My favourite types of beer are Imperial Stouts and Imperial IPAs. The darker, stronger, and more bitter, the better.

Aside from that I like most kinds of beers, although I tend to like beers less that are lighter, weaker, and less bitter.

The only kind of beer I dislike completely are fruit flavoured.

I disagree, but only because my own preferences are different from yours. I already stated my case about this a few pages back that no one responded to ( ), so I'll just repeat it again. I love the fact that the American craft beer seen has exploded and that we have a lot of great beers. But my problem is that American craft brewers tend to take all of the styles from around the world, and then just add a dick-ton of hops to it. Almost every American craft beer I try is WAYYYYYY to bitter and has WAYYYYYY too much hop aroma for the style. It's gotten to the point where the BJCP just threw their hands up and gave up trying to tone everyone down on this, and instead created "American" sub-classes for a bunch of styles, which means bury the malt and yeast flavors in mounds and mounds of hops.

My favorite styles tend to be the malt-forward beers, like Scottish Ales and Doppelbocks, and the yeast-forward beers like German Weizens and Belgian Dubbels and Tripels (and Duchesse de Bourgogne, which may be my favorite beer in the world). And in those categories, the Americans are not as good their European counterparts (except for Ommegang's brews, which rival a lot of the real Belgians). I mean, I like IPAs, but I find that Americans just go way over the top on them.